Culinary apparatus



(No Model.)

W. H. DAN'IELL. GULIN'ARY APPARATUS.

No. 254,119. Patented Feb. 28,1882.

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WILLIAM H. DANIELL, OF POTTSVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

CULINARY APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 254,119, dated February 28, 1882.

Application filed May 16, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM H. DANIELL, of Pottsville, in the county of Schuylkill and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Culinary Implements and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon. which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to improvements in culinary apparatus and utensils, the object being to provide a simple means of facilitating the various operations of baking, roasting, steaming, boiling, or otherwise preparing articles of food before an open fire or within or upon an ordinary cooking-stove; and the invention consists in the construction and arran gement of devices, as hereinafter more fully set forth.

In the annexed drawings, which fully illustrate the invention, Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal section of the main apparatus or oven on the line y y, Fig. 2, and'Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse section of the same on the line mm, Fig. 1, both views showing the devices in position before an open fire. Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse section, showing the position of the apparatus when resting upon the top of a stove.

A represents an outer casing or shell, one side of which is open, and another side, if desired, may be hinged or provided with a door. This shell is provided with one or more handles, a.

Within the shell A is arranged an inner shell or oven, B, one side of which is also entirely open. Another side is hinged, as shown at I), and still another, opposite the open side, is provided with an opening, which is closed by the slide 0, that moves in grooved ways 0 c.

The inner shell, B, is provided with handles (1 d, and on its inner side has brackets or flanges e 0, arranged at right angles, and with intervening spaces, so as to be capable of supporting suitable shelves or partitions in either of the two positions in which the oven or shell B is placed when in use.

At each end of the shell B is a slot, f,'that may be closed, if desired, by a slide, f. When open a rod or spit, g, may be passed through these slots and be supported by its ends resting therein,.as shown in Fig. 1. These slots also serve as apertures for inspecting the condition of the contents of the oven or for introducing suitable implements to turn articles that are being cooked. This can only be done, however, when the outer shell, A, is removed.

Upon the brackets e or e, I prefer to arrange gratings h, which support articles to be baked or roasted, the perforations in said gratings permitting a free upward circulation of the heat. A similar wire grating, 71/, is suspended by a hook, i, that passes through an opening, 70, and terminates in the knob or handle t. This grating is adapted to inclose a steak or similar article of food, which may thus readily be turned so as to expose its sides uniformly to the heat.

It will be observed that when the apparatus is used before an open fire it is placed with its open side thereto, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, 75 so as to expose its contents freely to the heat which is radiated therefrom and retained by the shells in such a manner as to thoroughly cook such articles as may be placed within the inner shell. The outer shell, A, may also be arranged with its open side toward the fire; or, ifit is desired to moderate the heat, it may be placedso that one of its closed sides will interpose between the fire and the inner shell.

When the apparatus is used upon an ordinary closed stove it is placed with the open sides of the shell downward, as shown in Fig.

3. The 'hinged and sliding doors or sides of the shells afford convenient access thereto without the necessity of removing them from the fire.

Having thus described my invention, what Iclaim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a culinary apparatus, the combination, 5 with an outer inclosing shellhaving handles and suitable hinged sides, of an inner shell provided with'handles and opeuiu gs and having interior shelves or gratings supported on In testimony that I claim the foregoing as 10 brackets, substantially as and for the purpose my own I have hereto affixed my signature in shown and described. presence of two witnesses.

2. In a culinary apparatus, the combination, 5 with the outer shell, A, of the inner shell, B, WILLIAM H. DANIELL.

bavin g brackets e c, grated partitions h h, spitrod 9, supported in slot ff, and book i, sup- Witnesses:

porting a wire broiling-frame, h, substantially M. L. WATSON,

as and for the purpose specified. JNO. A. STOOKMAN. 

